/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Bench Scraper

Carbon steel wok, properly seasoned

>>12880151
>that your average person doesn't know
I feel like most people probably know, they just can't be fucked to spend the money on a niche item.

What happened to tagines? They were a fad a few years ago, nobody uses them anymore, but I never see them in thrift stores.

>>12880185
>on a niche item
you can cook almost everything in them and they wipe clean with little scrubbing. amazon's basic brand is cheap and as good as the $300 ones

Chinese cleaver knife fuses the functionality of >>12880158 with a normal chef's knife + can cut meat with thicker spine.

>>12880189
gimmick.jpg
what does this offer that you cant do with crockpots, any other type of pot, steam cooker, etc

>>12880190
>amazon's basic

>>12880200
I don't know. I wanted to get one from a thrift store when the fad wore off to find out.

pie weights

>>12880200
Dunno. I'm used to using it and not a crockpot. Can you throw your crockpot in the oven with a bunch of liquid and slowly braise your ingredients and end up with a sauce while your meat is browned on both the top and bottom (from contact from the hot ceramic)?

>>12880151
kitchen pants

>>12880151
you really think the average person has never gone to a department store...?

>>12880995
pants in the kitchen

>>12880995
why would you wear more than an apron in the kitchen?

>>12880983
just get a dutch oven

>>12881036
How would that help? Are you suggesting paying one to cook?

>>12880185
>a niche item
it's a fucking pot
they're also not super expensive. sure, le creuset will last a lifetime and is nigh indestructible etc etc but I can buy ten lodges for the price of one le creuset

broke: buy once cry once
woke: buy the cheap shit and then you can buy an expensive one if it breaks. there's zero point in refinancing your house to buy a whole chest of snap-on/mac tools when you can buy kobalt or husky and only a few of them will ever break (probably from you doing stupid shit)

>>12881027
why would you even wear an apron? sweats and grubby shirts baybee

>>12881224
huh?

>>12880151
>>12880158

Absofucking-lutely. Both are key. The dutch oven is best for baking bread, which most people probably know but I'll pretend is 'boutique'.

>>12881002
malls are dead, anon

>>12881013

Penis out, or you're not risking anything. Penis means you learn to keep water away from bacon fat.

>>12881002

To die in the movie Night of the Comet maybe? That was 1984.

>>12881246
Dutch women are known for being prostitutes/whores. It's an old joke even referenced in Austin Powers.

BRAAAAAAPPP

>>12880151
immersion/stick blender. great for making soups and god tier taco meat.

>>12880189
my dad bought 2 and both of them cracked
i suspect that's generally their fate

>>12881266
you can watch that on youtube, hey but I didn't tell ya

>>12881013
>>12881027
my kitchen pants have a slot for my penis so that i can write notes. i do not wear a shirt in my kitchen.

>>12880151
Why the fuck Dutch Ovens so damn expensive? I went to Canadian Tire the other night and they were all over a hundred bucks.

>>12880151
A boning knife, they're amazing. I didn't realize it until a couple years ago.

>>12881700
They last forever and people are willing to pay over a hundred bucks for one.

>>12880192
Was gifted one the other day, feels good

>>12882460
y r ur hands so clean u weirdo

>>12882493
Cause women shouldn't have dirty hands it's disgusting

I found a real Japanese Ginsu knife at a thrift store. It was pretty beat up and dull, but I bet as soon as I sharpen it It'll be slicing things like it was a Samurai sword!

>>12880151
Wouldn't a cast iron dutch oven be more useful since theres no danger of the enamel chipping?

Micro-plane grater

Great for ginger, garlic, nutmeg, shallots and onions. I haven't tried it with mine but I suppose you could finely grate some parmigiano with this too. Nice kitchen gadget to have for cheap, and essential if you ever cook Asian dishes, since many of them call for fresh, grated ginger.

>>12882667
A high-quality enameled Dutch oven like a Le Creuset won't have chipping issues in the first place. Additionally the enamel being white means you can actually monitor the browning of food and butter, and the enamel allows for cooking acidic foods that would otherwise draw a metallic flavor from the oxidizing iron.

>>12880151

>>12882704
>Le Creuset
$340 for a 5.5 qt. Damn.

>>12882718
I can actually sense Alton Brown tossing in his sleep because of this reply.

>>12882725
I have no idea what that is suppose to mean or imply.

>>12882723
Buy once, cry once. Or buy some cheapshit and chip the lid the first time you set it down on the pot a little too hard.

>>12882738
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg
The Graty is a shitty kitchen gadget that only does one job, while a standard box grater could do the same shit plus lots of other things. It's generally a good idea for each kitchen tool to have multiple uses, so as to maximize kitchen storage space.

Thought of another gadget: stainless steel mixing bowls. In addition to mixing, they're great for holding onto diced veggies that would otherwise clutter your cutting board while you prep ingredients. Excellent for serving popcorn as well. I use a smaller one as a countertop rubbish bin for vegetable stems and meat trimmings while I'm cooking, as opposed to having the garbage can next to me while I cook.

>>12880151

>>12882772
Of course its shitty, but the graty makes grating much faster and you don't waste any pieces too small to grate too
Besides some fancy cheese, I've put vegetables, nuts, butter, chocolate, and old meat for my cat in it.

>>12882810
Just use a Ninja.

>>12882831
>Ninja
Whats that? Use a literal ancient Chinese warrior? So like, find a slave?

>>12880208
all enamel will chip if you fuck around with it. its not going to be anymore fragile than glass & i cant remember the last time i broke glass

>>12880957
Just use dry beans for 1/16th the cost

>>12880151
Oh yeah. I love my enameled pot and baby it. Even the inevitable discoloration in the bottom of pot I take care of by boiling baking soda with water to make it look like new.

>>12882850
I can promise you, Amazon Basics enameled cast iron dutch oven will chip LONG before a le creuset would.

>>12882517
p-pls marry me

>>12881306
I really, really like this post

This is the greatest single-purpose item I own. Makes making finely ground beef extremely easy. I use it for tacos, spaghetti bolognese, stroganoff, chili....really anything with ground beef that isn't a pattie. Also works on pork sausage, chicken thighs, etc.

>>12882517
o makes sense

>>12883260
What is it with boomers obsession with crushing ground beef into a pulp while cooking it? It’s already ground, just stir it with a fucking spatula. You don’t need to autistically smash it.

>>12883260
>nonstick pan
>pressing an iron tool into it
Enjoy ingesting carcinogenic teflon flakes.

>>12883469
You can say that again.

>>12883469
It helps it cook evenly, by giving uniform cooking surface. What's with zoomers making medium rare globs of ground beef?

>>12883474
The mixnchop is made of nylon.

>>12882845
>>12881224
These jokes are fucking terrible, kill yourself you unfunny faggot.

>>12882723
The betty Crocker catalogue used to have LeCreuset Dutch Ovens for $150-$200.
They were even less if you collected betty crocker points and had enough to redeem them for a discount.
Then Betty Crocker discontinued the use of the points.

>>12881700
Flavour of the decade. They'll be forgotten again in the 20s.

>>12881700
Flavour of the decade. They'll be forgotten again in the 20s.

>>12882695
>I haven't tried it with mine but I suppose you could finely grate some parmigiano with this too.
Yep, that's why I bought one.

>>12882517
wristlet eww

>>12882517
Plz show boypussy >w<

>>12885912
Kill yourself degenerate

I bought a oval dutch oven, did I fuck up?

>>12880151
This bad boy right here. I shake my head whenever I see people cracking eggs into a pan.

>>12883260
Or just grind your meat to your desired texture before you start cooking. Or have your butcher do that for you.

>>12882667
Yes, but the cookware you inherited from your great grandpa isn't a status symbol.

>>12883740
How can a joke tear a bell?

>>12882704
>the enamel being white means you can actually monitor the browning of food and butter
or you could just git gud.
>the enamel allows for cooking acidic foods that would otherwise draw a metallic flavor from the oxidizing iron
or you could just use a ceramic dish inside the cast iron double-boiler style.
but the biggest reason why enameled cast iron is crap is because it lacks the feet needed to use it over a campfire, which is the whole point of having a dutch oven in the first place. cooking inside is for urbans and women.

>>12889279

>>12883260

I bought one. I still just use a bakelite spatula. Those slap-chop level pieces of shit are useless.

>>12883469
You absolutely do need to break it up. It clumps together if you don't.